[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource GamesPress.]

Berlin, August 2^nd, 2018 – From August 1^st, 2018, Bernd Beyreuther joins the team of Berlin-based SOFTGAMES Mobile Entertainment Services GmbH, one of the world"s largest developers of messenger games. As Head of Studio, Beyreuther will be responsible for the management of the in-house Game Studio.

More than 30 years of experience

Beyreuther created his first games back in the 1980s and has been active in the games industry since the mid-1990s. The founder and creative director of the Berlin-based studio Radon Labs (2000-2010) is known for the successful Drakensang RPG series. For 5 years, though, he follows his passion for mobile gaming and worked at studios such as Bigpoint or King. Most recently he acted as Head of Studio at the Berlin branch of South Korean mobile studio Smilegate.

"Thanks to the constant growth in messenger games, we can double the size our Instant Games team this year and at the same time add several senior positions," says SOFTGAMES CEO Alexander Krug. "With over 30 years of development and team leadership experience, Bernd is the one to bring this expanded team together."

SOFTGAMES has big plans for 2018: The team is currently working on five new titles for Facebook"s Instant Games, which will be released later this year under the SOFTGAMES brand.

About us                  

Based in Berlin, the creative capital of Europe, SOFTGAMES is one of the world’s largest developer of Messenger Games with tens of millions of users every month. Our vision is to help users to instantly play games with their friends, while helping brands to reach their target audiences. As a HTML5 games pioneer we"ve developed over 450 games since 2012. Further we built the world"s largest distribution and monetisation platform for HTML5 games outside the messengers with a total reach of 30 million MAU. 

Press contact:

Melanie Fritsch (PR & Communications Manager)

Phone: 0049-(0)30-68816002

Email: press@softgames.com